[mr48chev]

Aligning a car with shims isn't difficult or hard and anyone who is worth his salt as an alignment tech should be able to figure it out. It's still caster/camber/toe in and just a different approach to getting the settings you want than a car with struts on it. You put the gauges on it, check what you have and decide what you need to do to get it where you want it to go. Most guys are going to decide it's a lot easier than what they are used to working on.

The big rub may be that they don't stock shims but I kept used shims in every shop I worked in and reused them. New shims are nice because they jump up and down and wave at the customer while hollering "look at me" when the customer looks under the hood to see what you did. Meaning that New shims show the customer you did something while reusing old shims out of your shim pan may not look like you did anything to the customer but the way the car drives should tell the tale. If there are salvage yards with some old 70's early 80's GM cars in them that have front ends that use shims close by I would be headed there with a hand full of wrenches to harvest an assortment of shims. A guy can make his own out of flat washers but that is a lot of work.

Unless you have far more spendable cash than the majority of us and more power to you if you do, a caster/camber gauge and pair of turn tables is going to cost several hundred US dollars in most cases unless you get a bargain on a used set. That might not be productive $$ wise compared to finding someone who can do the work.